Fawzia Amin Sido

Fawzia Amin Sido
Fewziya Emîn Seydo
فەوزییە ئەمین سیدۆ
Disappeared3 August 2014
StatusReunited with parents 2024
Other namesIraqi Arabic: فوزية أمين سيدو
CitizenshipIraq
Children2 (whereabouts unknown)
FatherAmin Sido
Family2 sisters and 5 brothers [1]

Fawzia Amin Sido (Kurdish: Fewziya Emîn Seydo[2] فەوزییە ئەمین سیدۆ [a] Iraqi Arabic: فوزية أمين سيدو [9][10] b. 1999[11] or 2003[12]) is a Yazidi woman from northern Iraq who was captured by the Islamic State (ISIS) as a 10-year-old child[b] during the Yazidi genocide in 2014. She was held in captivity for a decade and subjected to physical and sexual abuse.

Initially she was forcibly married to a Palestinian ISIS militant in Syria, resulting in her having two children by him before she was 15. The militant sexually and physically abused her. After he was killed, she travelled with her two children to live with his family in the Gaza Strip in 2020.[15] In 2023 the family's home was hit by an airstrike, and she fled to a shelter elsewhere in the Gaza Strip.[16] The IDF said that the strike killed a "Hamas terrorist affiliated with ISIS" who was holding her captive.[17]

Sido leaving the Gaza Strip was complicated by Iraq not having diplomatic relations with Israel.[15] She was eventually allowed to enter Israel, then escorted to Jordan by American officials, and ultimately reunited with her family in Sinjar, Iraq. Media report indicates that the United States, Israeli, Iraqi, and Jordanian governments collaborated in her evacuation from the Gaza Strip.

  1. ^ a b "A Kurdish woman kidnapped by ISIS has been rescued in Gaza" [ژنێکی کوردی ئێزدی کە لەلایەن داعشەوە رفێندرابوو لە غەززە رزگار کرا]. manage.rudaw.net (in Kurdish). Rudaw Kurdish. 3 October 2024. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
  2. ^ "Min çawa Fewziya Emîn Seydo li Xezeyê dît?". manage.rudaw.net. RÛDAW. 5 October 2024. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
  3. ^ "Israeli army: Yezidi woman rescued from Gaza and sent back to Iraq" [سوپای ئیسرائیل: ژنێکی ئێزدی لە غەززە رزگارکرا و نێردرایەوە عێراق]. manage.rudaw.net (in Kurdish). Rudaw Media Network. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
  4. ^ "AVA tells the "sad" story of the rescue of a Kurdish girl in Gaza - AVA News" [ئاڤا چیرۆکی "دڵتەزێنی" ڕزگارکردنی کچێکی کوردی ئێزدی لە غەززە دەگێڕێتەوە]. AVA News (in Central Kurdish). www.ava.news. AVA News. 3 October 2024. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
  5. ^ "Israeli army: Yezidi woman rescued from Gaza and sent back to Iraq" [سوپای ئیسرائیل: ژنێکی ئێزدی لە غەززە ڕزگارکرا و نێردرایەوە ئێراق]. Kurdipedia.org. Kurdipedia کوردیپێدیا. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
  6. ^ "ئەمەریکا لە پرۆسەیەکی دیپلۆماسی ئاڵۆزدا ژنێکی ئێزیدی لە غەززە ڕزگاردەکات" [United States rescues Yazidi woman in Gaza in complicated diplomatic process]. Voice of America (in Kurdish). 3 October 2024. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
  7. ^ "A Yazidi woman rescued in Gaza in a complicated diplomatic process; Read his story" [ە پڕۆسەیەکی دیپلۆماسی ئاڵۆزدا ژنێکی ئێزیدی لە غەززە ڕزگاركرا؛ چیرۆكه‌كه‌ی بخوێنه‌ره‌وه‌]. Xendan. 3 October 2024. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
  8. ^ "The United States rescues a Yazidi woman from Gaza in a complicated diplomatic process" [ئەمەریکا لە پرۆسەیەکی دیپلۆماسی ئاڵۆزدا ژنێکی ئێزیدی لە غەززە ڕزگاردەکات]. www.zamenpress.com. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
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  10. ^ Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Arabic) https://mofa.gov.iq/2024/50444/
  11. ^ "Hamas counters abduction claim, says Yazidi woman's Gaza departure was voluntary". The Business Standard. 6 October 2024. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
  12. ^ "أمين سيدو والد المختطفة فوزية يتحدث عن قصة ظهورها على قناة روداو". Zewa News - وكالة زيوا الاخبارية (in Arabic). Retrieved 13 October 2024.
  13. ^ Cite error: The named reference BBC ar statement was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  14. ^ Cite error: The named reference Le Monde decade was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  15. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference VOA 42 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  16. ^ Stocker, Joanne (3 October 2024). "Yazidi woman kidnapped by ISIS in Iraq escapes from Gaza a decade later, officials say - CBS News". www.cbsnews.com. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
  17. ^ "The IDF led by COGAT, in collaboration with the U.S. Embassy in Israel, rescued a young Yazidi woman held by a Hamas terrorist affiliated with ISIS in the Gaza Strip". www.idf.il. Israel Defense Forces. 3 October 2024. Retrieved 13 October 2024.


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